A TikTok US energy outage triggered a ‘cascading methods failure’ resulting in a number of bugs

In case your TikTok feed has felt a bit of off these days, it is not simply you. TikTok says continues to be working to repair its service within the US following an influence outage at one in all its information facilities that is triggered “a number of bugs” within the app. TikTok customers have reported issues logging in and importing movies, in addition to unusual conduct from the “for you” algorithm. Creators have additionally observed that new uploads are seemingly getting o views or likes and that in-app earnings have disappeared.

“Since yesterday we’ve been working to revive our companies following an influence outage at a U.S. information middle impacting TikTok and different apps we function,” the corporate wrote in an announcement Monday. “We’re working with our information middle accomplice to stabilize our service. We’re sorry for this disruption and hope to resolve it quickly.”

In a subsequent replace a number of hours later, the corporate mentioned that the ability outage had triggered a “cascading methods failure” that’s nonetheless affecting the app and resulting in “a number of bugs,” together with these affecting view counts and cargo instances. “Creators could quickly see ‘0’ views or likes on movies, and your earnings could seem like they’re lacking,” the corporate wrote in an replace on X. “It is a show error attributable to server timeouts; your precise information and engagement are protected.”

The assertion didn’t instantly tackle reported points with the app’s advice algorithm. Since Sunday, customers have reported seeing a wave of generic movies flood their feeds, that are usually hyper-personalized. Different customers have reported seeing the identical few movies repeated over and over.

The problems come simply days after TikTok finalized a deal to spin off its US enterprise right into a separate entity largely controlled by US traders. That timing hasn’t gone unnoticed by customers, a lot of whom are already suspicious of the corporate pushing a phrases of service and privateness coverage within the hours after the deal was finalized. The issues affecting the app’s advice algorithm have additionally raised questions on TikTok USDS Joint Enterprise’s plans to “retrain” TikTok’s central characteristic.

Replace, January 26, 2026, 4:18PM PT: This publish has been up to date to incorporate further info from TikTok concerning the outage and bugs affecting customers.